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Posted: 12-Jun-26
Location: Valhalla, New York
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Internal Number: 47807
Network Chief of Trauma, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care - WMCHealth
Summary:
WMC Health’s Department of Surgery is seeking a fellowship trained trauma surgeon with a specialization in trauma surgery, general surgery and surgical critical care, who has academic leadership experience. WMCHealth has 5 trauma centers integrated as the WMCHealth Trauma Consortium. The main campus of Westchester Medical Center has an ACS verified Level 1 Level 1 regional Trauma Center for adults and for pediatric patients. All of the trauma centers have high general surgery operative volume which includes robotic surgery. The candidate will be expected to lead the academic and programmatic missions at the main campus in addition to providing support and oversight to the consortium’s trauma centers and programs. The trauma program is an integral component of a large academic Department of Surgery that spans three geographic regions and nine hospitals, with a robust research program that includes an international trauma research fellowship.
Experience:
Applicants must be board certified or board eligible by the American Board of Surgery in general surgery and surgical critical care. Requirements include demonstrated skills in emergency surgery, surgical critical care and, trauma patient care, and a record of leadership, teaching and research experience (health services, translational or basic science research). The Network Chief of Trauma, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care reports directly to the Chair of the Department of Surgery. Candidate requirements include an M.D. or D.O. from an accredited school of medicine or osteopathy, as well as the completion of a surgical residency and a surgical critical care fellowship.
About Us:
As the primary teaching hospital of New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center has both an ACGME accredited general surgery residency training program and an ACGME accredited surgical critical care fellowship program (the largest such fellowship in the state of New York), and you will have ample opportunities to be involved with medical student, resident and fellow education. Academic Appointment at New York Medical College will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. This is an employed position within our academic group practice with comprehensive benefits and malpractice coverage.
Facility Info:
WMCHealth is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York with 9 hospitals on seven campuses serving a population of three million people and spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley and includes Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, a state-of-the-art Telemedicine program, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State.
Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physician Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Other:
Interested candidates should email a curriculum vitae along with a letter of interest to Kartik Prabhakaran MD FACS, Chair of Surgery by email: kartik.prabhakaran@wmchealth.org
Westchester Medical Center Advanced Physician Services is an equal opportunity employer.
